Benzodiazepines: good or bad medicine?
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Benzodiazepines: good or bad medicine?
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Barriers to nonpharmacologic treatments for stress, anxiety, and insomnia: family physicians' attitudes toward benzodiazepine prescribing.Can Fam Physician. 2010 Nov;56(11):e398-406. Can Fam Physician. 2010. PMID: 21075981 Free PMC article.
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